Three members of the lok Sabha — TG Venkatesh Babu, Meenakashi lekhi and Prathap Simha — have been nominated to the Press Council of India (PCI) by Speaker Sumitra Mahajan. According to the PCI Act, the panel shall consist of a chairman and 28 members. Five shall be members of Parliament of whom three will be from the lS nominated by the speaker and two from the Upper Housee nominated by the RS chairman.
The MPs, whose names were announced in a lok Sabha bulletin, were lekhi and Simha from the ruling BJP and Babu is from the AIADMK.